Gas-producer.



" PATENTEIJ MAY 7, 1907.

W. :B. HUGHES. GAS PR ODUGERZ, 7 APPLICATION FILED 001315, 1906.

BI -a fl L4 TTORMEK WILLIAM B. HUGHES, 0F CLEVELAND, OHIQ.

GAS-PRODUCER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented may 7, 1907.

Anplication filed October 15, 1906. Serial No. 338,967.

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Be it known that I, \VILLIAM B. HUGHES, a citizen of the United States, residing inthe city of Cleveland, county of Ctrvahoga, and State of ,Ohio, have invented certain lin- )rovcnients in Gas-Producers, of which the iollowing is a specification.

This invention is a gas producer having as its principal object to provide a simple, inexpensive and ei'licient construction, comprising a body supported by an artificial stone base having a channel therein with deflecting iiieans for distributing air to the interior of the body, and channels for holding water to provide a seal for the lower part of the body dipping therein. the body being preferably rectangular in c .wss section and the channels parallel to the sides of the body.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a sectionalplan View of the inve11-- tion; Fig. 2 represents a vertical sectional view thereof taken on the line 2-2 of Fig. 3, and Fig. 3 represents a Vertical sectional View taken on the line of Fig. 2.

As shown in the drawings, the rectangular body 1 has the end walls 2 supported upon the end walls 3 of the base 4, and the side Walls 5 supported by the Z-bars 6 which rest upon the end walls and depend into the par- An alr channel a lel channtds 7 in the base. H is formed in the base between. and parallel to the water channels 7, and the deflector 9, unnprising i he depending V-shaped spreader ll) terminating in the horizontally disposed \rings 11 with the perforations 12 therein, is supported upon the \ralls 13 between the air and (rater channels so as to provide lateral passages ll for distrilniting the air introwalls 13 and the exterior walls 16 forming the parallel air and water channels formed integrallv therewith, being inexpensive, easily made, light, enduring and cllicient.

The deflector, extending across the base through the center of the body above the air channel, is preferably made in sections, hav-- ing thereon vertical, laterally disposed brack 'ets or W6l S 17 connected by plates l8 resting on the walls 13, being of inexpensive con struction and readily replaced,

Having described myinvention, I claim:

1. A gas producer having an artificial stone base with artificial stone Walls forming an air channel'extending transversely across the producer chamber and a water channel on each side of said air channel, said walls being disposed so as to act as separators for'the air and Water. I

l. A gas producer having an artificial stone base with artificial stone walls forming an air channel extending transversely across the producer chamber and a Water channel on each side of said air channel, said walls being disposed so as to separate the air and water, and a deflector supported by said walls, said deflector comprising a depending spreader terminating in wings.

in testimony whereof I have hereunto set any name this sixth day of October, 1906, in the presence of the subscribing witnesses.

' WM. ll. HUGHES. Witnesses:

ELI S. Saxnnason, Enw. J. FISHER.

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